{"id":175788,"date":"2020-11-28T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/28\/our-own-marketing-department-of-the-sirius-cybernetics-corporation\/"},"modified":"2020-11-28T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T00:40:00","slug":"our-own-marketing-department-of-the-sirius-cybernetics-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/11\/28\/our-own-marketing-department-of-the-sirius-cybernetics-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Own Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  I am referring of course, to the &#8220;White Shoe&#8221; consultancy firm McKinsey &amp;   Company, which has increasingly made justifying the illegal and immoral, and   whose latest bit of evil was a proposal for Perdue Pharma to   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/27\/business\/mckinsey-purdue-oxycontin-opioids.html\">pay distributors a bounty for overdose deaths<\/a>, because, like any good dope dealer, it&#8217;s all about the Benjamins. <\/p>\n<p>  The short version is that in order to convince distributors not to share their   concerns about how Oxycontin was resulting in an explosion of deaths with   regulators, or ending their relationship with Perdue, McKinsey &amp; Company   proposed a $14,810.00 payment for death or hospitalization. <\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s blood money, and it is a criminal conspiracy to bribe those distributors   not to take actions that would harm the bottom line. <\/p>\n<p>  Even if the Sacklers and their Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> never took up this   suggestion, it is a felony to even discuss this, and McKinsey is guilty. <\/p>\n<p>They really need to get the Arthur Anderson treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Their name, and memory, should be effaced:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">When Purdue Pharma agreed last month to     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/21\/health\/purdue-opioids-criminal-charges.html\" title=\"\">plead guilty to criminal charges<\/a>    involving OxyContin, the Justice Department noted the role an unidentified     consulting company had played in driving sales of the addictive painkiller     even as public outrage grew over widespread overdoses.   <\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Documents released last week in a federal bankruptcy court in New York       show that the adviser was McKinsey &amp; Company, the world\u2019s most       prestigious consulting firm. The 160 pages include emails and slides       revealing new details about McKinsey\u2019s advice to the Sackler family,       Purdue\u2019s billionaire owners, and the firm\u2019s now notorious plan to       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/02\/01\/business\/purdue-pharma-mckinsey-oxycontin-opiods.html\" title=\"\">\u201cturbocharge\u201d OxyContin sales<\/a>      at a time when opioid abuse had already killed hundreds of thousands of       Americans.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">In a 2017 presentation, according to the records, which were filed in       court on behalf of multiple state attorneys general, McKinsey laid out       several options to shore up sales. One was to give Purdue\u2019s distributors a       rebate for every OxyContin overdose attributable to pills they sold.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The presentation estimated how many customers of companies including CVS       and Anthem might overdose. It projected that in 2019, for example, 2,484       CVS customers would either have an overdose or develop an opioid use       disorder. A rebate of $14,810 per \u201cevent\u201d meant that Purdue would pay CVS       $36.8 million that year.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Though McKinsey has not been charged by the federal government or sued,       it began to worry about legal repercussions in 2018, according to the       documents. After Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against Purdue, Martin       Elling, a leader for McKinsey\u2019s North American pharmaceutical practice,       wrote to another senior partner, Arnab Ghatak: \u201cIt probably makes sense to       have a quick conversation with the risk committee to see if we should be       doing anything\u201d other than \u201celiminating all our documents and emails.       Suspect not but as things get tougher there someone might turn to       us.\u201d<\/span>  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Why the F%$# haven&#8217;t they been charged?<\/span><\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They not only engaged in a criminal conspiracy which would include bribery and other racketeering, they initiated the proposal to do so.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"><span>Mr. Ghatak, who also advised Purdue, replied: \u201cThanks for the heads up.         Will do.\u201d<\/span><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">It is not known whether consultants at the firm went on to destroy any       records.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\"> <\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">The two men were among the highest-ranking consultants at McKinsey. Five       years earlier, the documents show, they emailed colleagues about a meeting       in which McKinsey persuaded the Sacklers to aggressively market       OxyContin.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting \u201cwent very well \u2014 the room was filled       with only family, including the elder statesman Dr. Raymond,\u201d wrote Mr.       Ghatak, referring to Purdue\u2019s co-founder, the physician Raymond Sackler,       who would die in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Elling concurred. \u201cBy the end of the       meeting,\u201d he wrote, \u201cthe findings were crystal clear to everyone and they       gave a ringing endorsement of moving forward fast.\u201d<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">McKinsey\u2019s involvement in the opioid crisis came to light early last       year, with the release of documents from Massachusetts, which is among the       states suing Purdue. Those records show that McKinsey was helping Purdue       find a way \u201cto counter the emotional messages from mothers with teenagers       that overdosed\u201d from OxyContin.<\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026 <br \/><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u201cThis is the banality of evil, M.B.A. edition,\u201d Anand Giridharadas, a       former McKinsey consultant who reviewed the documents, said of the firm\u2019s       work with Purdue. \u201cThey knew what was going on. And they found a way to       look past it, through it, around it, so as to answer the only questions       they cared about: how to make the client money and, when the walls closed       in, how to protect themselves.\u201d <\/span>  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>    <span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">McKinsey put together briefing materials that anticipated questions       Purdue would receive. <span style=\"color: black;\">[At an FDA oversight hearing] <\/span>One possible question: \u201cWho at Purdue takes personal       responsibility for these deaths?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The proposed answer: \u201cWe all       feel responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shut them down, and shame and jail anyone associated with McKinsey and Company. <\/p>\n<p>They are ineluctably evil.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Immortalized by Douglas Adams as, &#8220;<i>A bunch of mindless jerks who&#8217;ll be the first against the wall when the     revolution comes.<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am referring of course, to the &#8220;White Shoe&#8221; consultancy firm McKinsey &amp; Company, which has increasingly made justifying the illegal and immoral, and whose latest bit of evil was a proposal for Perdue Pharma to pay distributors a bounty for overdose deaths, because, like any good dope dealer, it&#8217;s all about the Benjamins. 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